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Marpissa

PKC7131
TITLEMarpissa
WGS84 37.044306° N, 25.248663° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 37.044306, 25.248663
LON/LAT 25.248663, 37.044306

DMS 37° 2' 39.5016" N,25° 14' 55.1868" E

W3Wtechnologies, synopses, dataset
UTM35 S, 344256.67, 4101221.61
EGSA87 610891, 4100228

Elevation m62
Elevation feet 203.4
RegionCyclades
SubregionParos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Lithics

TYPE

1.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 320    'This village ... is given as the source of a GP stone vase in the Ashmolean Museum, doubtless from a grave.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Grotta-Pelos: (3000 BC - 2600 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 320, 'GP'

NOTES

1.  From remarks in Simpson and Dickinson [1979] 320 the exact find spot seems now to be completely unknown.

2.  The former Tsipidos was renamed Marpissa in 1926. The name change record is here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Simpson and Dickinson [1979]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Tsipidon (Marpessa)', pg. 320. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7131 is at 37.03919° N, 25.26162° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 284 m.